New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-30
HINTS ON MEN AND AFFAIRS.
CHAT GATHERED WHERE PEOPLE MEET IN
PUBLIC PLACES.

often spoken of in public places Senatorelect Quay
of Pennsylvania is of the much talked about On'
story that is told is about his record soldier H'
wa, on the sick list 1t was just after payday. Hi
comrades had put together $50 600 to be sent home
their families and as he i'll he selected as the
bearer of their funds He had the money on his per-
son and was about to start tor homo when a general
engagement came on. He debated for long time
between his duty to the soldiers and their families
whose money he had on his person and his patriotic
desire to he with the boys in the fight. The
soldiers instinct finally conquered and he went into
the hattie with the money on his and fortunate
ly came out OF the fight unscathed. II. s. Altman
investments in this city, spoke abont this incident
NV home was at Beaver Penn, and with my
parents" he observed. attended the Presbyterian
nastor QUAY was always fond of cunning and
carried rife at early time that it seemed il he DID
not keep the gun properly poised II would tP mn,
days. was not surprised at his action in going hto
battle with that moncy on his person could nndeF
stand his desire to get shot at anything from guam
10 n rebel. The game in section in his day was
quail. rabbits, squirrel and turkey He always
brought home something from his cunning cxpedi-
tons | knew him when he was only eight or ten
years old. His mother was handsome lady, As q
boy of ten twelve years OF age he was GOOD Lam
and Greek scholar and good mathematician. Ills
manners were polished beyond his years. His educa,
tIonal equipment IA excellent "a he was graduated
from the academy and aftcrward from Washington
College. which was Blaines alma mater. His great
characteristic Ii MS linpcrturodoihty'
What is believed by its possessor to be tho last
paper signed by Abraham Lincoln is held by A. b.
Darling of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. IL lisa written
mass by which Mr. Darling entitled to go through
the lines to Mobile Ala where he had extensive busi.
ness interests requiring his attention. He secured II
from Mr. Lincoln late in the afternoon OF the day on
which the martyred President was shot. As Mt. In
coin was lust about going to dinner at the time the
pass was written, IL ia not believed that he cod pave
transacted any further business that day. IL Ia what
seems to have been a scrap of paper picked up from
the dcsk or torn from n letter sheet. Mr.. Darling has
framed it and keeps it as a memento.
mentioned recently the presence in this city OF W.
A. Hopkins the American VINO founded French
paper called lie Matin " in Paris. Mr.. Hopkins
spent rec months in this country and made trip TO
the Pacific coast. Chatting before his return to to
France he said Il would be like flying in the face o
tate for me to go back and tell in my paper the things
that have learned in America about America: Inc
ordinary European, IN talking about the United States
knows nothing beyond the Atlantic seaboard AMI the
great cities of NewYork Boston, Philadelphia ana
baltimore. OF course he knows about Washington
CITY, but there his knowledge ends. London bus
ness man of my acquaintance who had traveller over
here for business wrote MIN letter OF instructions 10
ewOrlcans in which he said among other things
1t you have day or two TO spare alter you get
through at NewOrleans, YOU might run over 10 san
francisco and try your hand there IL IL only an
illustration OF their want Of understanding OF distance
in this country. II | had been told myself before
came here on this trip that yOu had establishments
that were turning out finished locomotive every day,
should have taken the statement with some grains OF
allowance. Yet have seen the Baldwin Locomotive
Works turning out twenty-five finished locomotives
every ten days. Bnt think got the most startling
illustration OF the push and drive IN this country in
Chicago An acquaintance of mine told me there that
he was engaged in building Bessemer steel works
project upon which he entered within week two.
lie said that he had just bought 10000 acres 81
land and that 81, 600. 900 CT capital had been raised
an tht work OF constructing suitable buildings would
begin in oay or two. When | asked how coon he
expected the works completed and when he told me
Las t,ptn Tor ~ al
Nav | must | was astoundcd. lie SAID they must
catch to the boom in iron Why, over in France II
you were going to buy 10000 acres of land they
would spenG year in surve ing II, ana II Won were
going to spend 5000, 600 IN Bessemer steel works
they would he two three years in discussing the
plans for the bindings. am not disparagng France
by this comparison but only giving praise to
America
The electric light people even more interested
than the telephone and the telegraph managers in the
underground wire question. | talking this
subject at the Gilscy House with George W. Stockcy
OF Cleveland, Ohio who IL the manager OF the Brush
Electric Company, when he SAID he one require
of subway in which electric light wires may be
placed il that il shonld be secure from dampness III
dampness sccumnstcs on the wires and II allowed to
remain IL creates .igh tension electricity that Jumps
over the wires and DESTROYS the light. have spent
great deal OF time in examining the different systems
but have not yet found any that i sufficiently perfect
for electric light wires. The Dorsett system il all
right in other respects except this. The subway Which
they have laid in SXtlayc. is already leaking and il
seems impossible 10 make II perfectly water tight We
are agtatcd over this question in Cleveland. and we
had commission on here to examine the various sys
tens They have concluded 10 await developments
before taking any special action. think they have
taken the part of wisdom. Experiments will
doubtedly bring about perfect system Of subways tor
wires and will welcome 1t more heartily than
tho electric light people
Referring to electric light matters Mr. Stockley
added awe have never been 80 busy at present.
The West and South great fields Tor plants.
ton is In the last three months have
placed SOOO 900 worth Fl apparatus in the East.
We are reaching out To Europe, South America Aus
tralia, China and Japan The original capital o our
company was 100000. IL has been raised at differ
times until il is 81 600 600 the last increase
was made for the purchase OF Mr.. Brush's patents
He il now under contract to furnish all his new
inventions long az the company in in existence aud
while he is alive. That good deal for he is
only young man, much under forty years of age and
as ambitious To produce new results when he
was "A struggling inventor The latest field of opc:
ration has been in the direction of motors the power
for which may he located at long distances away from
the place of action. They require such motors in
mines and the systems be operated upon
street railroads. We have just shipped number of
motors to Denver to be used upon street railroad.
In mining the engines which supply the power may
be located mile Or two away from the place where
the power Is uscd'
Elmer Darling, the nephew of a. Il. Darling of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel purchases all the supplies for that
big house. He il tall and slender man, with hand
some face, black sidc-whskers and mustachc. lie
gets up every morning Mt 3 or o'clock to 20 TO
market He says that the daily supply of gouI for the
hotel is three barrels They dump two barrels into
the kncading trough for bread every morning.
! The wonderful growth Of the Western country and
especially the Northwest is illustrated in the great
public enterprises that are set on foot there The
men of the Northwest who come to New.York talk of
building five hundred to thousand miles of rail.
road or OF stretchinga line of telegraph across the
Continent OF developing mountains az ORC w Tho
same easy tone in which Colonel Mulberry Sellers
presents HIS wonderful eye wash on the stage Yet
there il buncombe in solid and substantio growtb
One of the promoters of these enterprises il
ernor w. ID. Washburn, Of Minnesota who ia the
owner of the great Touring mills at Minneapolis The
Governor here during the week In the interests
Of line Of railroad which has been projected from
Minneapolis to Sault Sto Marie where it connects with
the Canadian Pacific line This is the way in which no
speaks Of it We already have $50 m,Ies of track
laid and running. The distance from Mime
apolis to Sault Ste Marie 500 miles We shall have